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A World Without Email and Kathy Hochul's Surveillance State

I am trundling happily through Cal Newport’s A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload. I’m reading it on my phone, because it makes me feel more productive and connected. I have found that whenever I pick up a book, everyone starts talking to me, whereas when I’m looking at my phone, everyone else just turns and looks …